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George W. Bush Paints Portraits of Veterans Wounded Carrying Out His Orders
George W. Bush posted a photo on Veterans Day showing the former pres- ident painting portraits of those wounded in serv- ice to the United States during his time in office.
Bush wrote:
over the past several months, I’ve painted the portraits of 98 wounded warriors I’ve gotten to know – remarkable men and women who were injured carrying out my orders. I think about them on #veteransday and every day. Their paintings and stories will be featured in Por- TrAITS oF CourAGe – a book and special exhibit – next spring, and I am donating all my pro-
ceeds to @thebushcen- ter and our military Service Initiative’s work to honor and support them.
Former Presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush each phoned President-elect Donald Trump to con- gratulate the Republican nominee on defeating Hillary Clinton on Tuesday night.
Bush 41 made the first call, his spokesman Jim McGrath told CNN’s Jamie Gangel, and the two spoke for about five minutes. The elder Bush wished Trump “good luck on your new challenge.”
His son, Bush 43, also spoke to the president- elect.
“This morning I called President-elect donald Trump and congratulated him on his election as president of the united States of America,” Bush said in a statement to Gangel. “laura and I wish the president-elect, melania, and the entire Trump family all our very best as they take on an awesome responsibility and begin an exciting new chapter in their lives. We pray for the success of our country and the success of our new president.”
Humans Will Bully
Mild-Mannered
Autonomous Cars
by Jamie Condliffe
Step in front of an autonomous car, and it should stop. Cut one off while you’re driving, and it should hit the brakes. These are obvious safe- ty features to build into robotic vehicles—but they also leave open the possibility for humans to game their behavior. It's easy to imagine how cyclists might rule the roads of New York City if all taxis are
driverless.
That’s certainly a fear for Volvo. Speaking to the Guardian, the com- pany’s senior technical leader, Erik Coelingh, explained that the automaker plans to leave its self-driving cars unmarked during upcoming London trials so that human drivers aren’t tempted to take advantage. “I’m pretty sure that people will challenge them if they are marked by doing really harsh braking ... or putting themselves in the way,” he said.
In fact, Google has already experienced similar problems first- hand. Some of its cars found it difficult to pull away from stop signs, because they were too timid: other cars simply whistled by while
they sat stranded. That particular problem was overcome by having the car inch forward at the junction, much the way a human would, to indi- cate its intention.
But dialing up how dar- ing the cars are to match human drivers can only go so far—not least because there will always be people
who drive aggressively in order to get an edge. In fact, Discover points to a studycarried out by the London School of Economics, which found that drivers who are “combative” on the road are more welcoming of
autonomous cars. That could be because they think they’ll be pushovers.
Pedestrians may think similarly. A new study from the University of California, Santa Cruz, has modeled how pedestrians and autonomous vehicles might interact using game theory—in essence applying a little academic thinking to the everyday game of play- ing chicken with traffic. The conclusion? “Because autonomous vehicles will be risk- averse ... pedestrians will be able to behave with impunity, and autonomous vehicles may facilitate a shift toward pedestrian-ori- ented urban neighbor- hoods,” writes the author, Adam Millard- Ball.
The ability to take advantage of autonomous cars’ cau- tion is likely to extend to all road users. Google, for instance, has explained in the past that its AI systems are able to detect cyclists,
with the cars being “taught to drive conservatively around them.” But one cyclist in Austin reported that a Google vehicle found itself unable to set off because of its overcau- tious approach around the bicycle.
There is, of course, a need for some caution on the side of humans. Until autonomous cars are pervasive, stepping into traffic remains a dangerous choice, as it’s hard to tell from a distance whether a car is autonomous or not. In fact, researchers will probably be able to overcome some of these problems by sim- ply making their self- driving cars act more like humans—with, say, smoother driving or authentic horn-honking.
But unless it comes down to some kind of ethical dilemma, autonomous cars will be trained to avoid acci- dents. It seems implau- sible that humans won’t be tempted to take advantage.
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